Volume 12, Issue 3 (2011) Arab Women and Their Struggles for Socio-economic and Political Rights
Introduction
Essays
Arab Women and Political Development
Rowaida Al Maaitah, Hadeel Al Maaitah, Hmoud Olaimat, and Muntaha Gharaeibeh
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Women and Misyar Marriage: Evolution and Progress in the Arabian Gulf
Tofol Jassim Al-Nasr
Woman Entrepreneurship in the Al-Batinah Region of Oman: An identification of the Barriers
Ruqaya Al-Sadi, Rakesh Belwal, and Raya Al-Badi
Women and the Kuwaiti National Assembly
Muhamad S. Olimat
Women’s Empowerment in Bahrain
Fakir Al Gharaibeh
Promoting Gender-Sensitive Justice and Legal Reform in the Palestinian Territories: Perspectives of Palestinian Service Providers
Stephanie Chaban
Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use among Jordanian Muslim Women: Implications for Health and Social Policy
Muntaha K. Gharaibeh, Arwa Oweis, Farouk M. N. Shakhatreh, and Erika Sivarajan Froelicher
Women’s Rights: Tunisian Women in the Workplace
Sangeeta Sinha
Algerian Women between French Emancipation and Religious Domination on Marriage and Divorce from 1959 Ordonnance no. 59-274 to the 1984 Code de la Famille
Teresa Camacho de Abes
Attitudes toward Women’s Participation in Public Life in the United Arab Emirates
Husein Mohammad Al-Othman
Special Issue
- Special Issue Editors
- Muhamad Olimat
- Rowaida Maaitah
- Hmoud Olimat
JIWS Executive Staff
- Executive Editors
- Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University
- Cami Sanderson, Ferris State University
- Associate Editors
- Loni Bramson, American Public University System
- Sharon Hileman, Sul Ross State University